No. 35-36 (2020): Health, inequalities, discrimination

Far from being a purely biological data, health is deeply shaped by the social order and the power struggles, which structure our societies. This double issue causes us to renew the perspective on this well-known phenomenon in social sciences and to deepen our understanding of health-related social inequalities and discriminations. Focused on a variety of topics – patient access and triage in emergency rooms, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, doctor-patient relationship, care refusals, pregnancy monitoring and birth control pathways – the contributions gathered here draw on ethnographic methods and bring to light the interplay of formal and informal processes, structural and organizational mechanisms, as well as the interactions of various actors and spaces, whereby inequalities are produced.